Fantasy

So, for a minute I thought I had another idea for my vague visual English assignment, but then I realized that I actually had no true evidence of any sort to prove my thesis, only weak suggestions. The topic would be: are some people pre-disposed to like the fantasy genre of things, or is it completely random just like most other preferences? You know, questions like, does a person’s childhood effect whether or not they will like fantasy stuff into adulthood? Does such a preference leak into other things like music taste? Is it something to do with birth order?

For my own personal case studies, I’d use myself, Kim, Jen, Cailee and Sarah Colby. Ok: so Jen, Kim and I are what I’d describe as high-fantasy. We are nerds. Sarah and Cailee are not into the fantasy stuff, they are focused and passionate about real-world stuff (ie. Sarah loves hockey and Cailee loves dance.) I’ve come to the conclusion that birth order does not affect it much, since I am the oldest child in my family, Kim is the middle and Jen is the youngest.

People who like fantasy seem to like it in all forms; someone who loves Lord of the Rings (for more reasons than ‘ohmigosh Legolas is hot’) will tend to like Harry Potter, will tend to enjoy most of Wizard’s First Rule, will tend to play certain video games like Final Fantasy, Diablo, Baulder’s Gate, may like RPing, may watch crazy anime, may listen to crazy anime music, and may not be opposed to a game of D&D. People not into fantasy will probably not be particularly interested in any of the aforementioned. So I wonder, people who fall into the middle and like only some of the fantasy stuff, either why do they not like the other stuff or why do they like what they like? Wow, I’m totally rambling.

Actually, I saw this program a looong time ago in which they randomly selected a group of twenty or so people and asked strategic questions to find out whether they were high-fantasy oriented. Like, ‘if you had a castle, how would you protect it from dragons?’, the fantasy-oriented people would say, ‘aw man, I’d have a line of ice-mages with maxed mana ready to cast water spells to counter the dragons!’ where the not-fantasy oriented people would just say, ‘uh… dragons? What are you talking about?’ Anyways, the people behind the program staged an alien craft crash-landing one evening, and they proved that the fantasy-oriented people were all more convinced that something supernatural was actually going on. I don’t know, I thought that was funny. Yes! I am more easily deceived than most people!